Welcome to the website of S E Jenkins, writer.

In 1946 Jon Cadwallader escapes from a Western Australian orphanage following a traumatic death. He returns to England to find the little sister he left behind in Liverpool, but much has changed and an unexpected setback ultimately affects his life in ways he does not foresee. He returns to Australia without his sister, but his new beginning is complicated and riven by lies, deception and death. Then, when he least expects it, a stroke of good fortune provides him with an opportunity that has the power to transform his life forever and confirms in him a growing conviction: Australia belongs to him as much as he belongs to Australia.

In late 1949 Jon Cadwallader inherits a rich gold mine in Western Australia, but he wants to preserve the land and the Dreaming from a gold rush. Chips Carpenter's quest for a lost gold reef threatens the plan. Jon's life is further complicated by his friendship with Val, a fellow Pom, and Alice Macarthur's resentful nephew, Greg. A spell in the goldfields provides the cover Jon needs for his new wealth, and his future finally looks assured, but news from England turns his world upside down. Soon afterwards the fallout from a political decision made by the British and Australian Governments affects him, and others, setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately requires him to re-evaluate his feelings towards those closest to him.

In the late 1960s, Jindalee cattle station in Western Australia is once again affected by drought. Jon Cadwaller's relationship with his troublesome neighbour, Kit Kennilworth, a fellow cattleman, disrupts his contentment, as does his concern for protégeé, Harry Hammond, who has returned from Vietnam a double amputee. Jon's brief return to England and his reaquaintance with Pete, a childhood friend, and Merle, an ex-girlfriend, draws him into the complex and volatile world of the Australian nickle boom. But, soon after, a terrible accident throws Jon into a dark depression in which old memories and emotions resurface. His family life in jeopardy, an old adversary returns and takes him on a journey, a journey of rediscovery and renewal.